What strikes the author most is the uncertainty and flux of their lives as they and their circle improvised their way through the confusion of French, Spanish and British jurisdictions in the West Indies and America, and through the creeping, morphing status of the British in India.
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In 1818, the last of the Maratha Wars between the British and the Maratha Confederacy in India ended, securing British supremacy in India.
The first British administrator of Bengal, he was instrumental in the foundation of British rule in India.
Yet, in what was the first imperial education policy in British India, Macaulay aggressively pushed for English as the medium for as many Indians as possible to be given a Western education.
After the British left India in 1947, many of these traders took over the mills.
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the British High Commission in India said UK consular officials in Delhi had spoken to the woman and local police.
After independence from the British in 1947, India outlawed what was an age-old practice of untouchability of low-caste Hindus by those seen as superior by birth.
Mr Scudamore added that the Premier League runs a skills and coaching initiative in India, in conjunction with the British Council, to further Indian interest in the sport.
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With the annexation of Punjab in 1849, British India reached the frontier.
The MQM is based in Sindh province, with a membership mostly comprising the descendants of Urdu-speaking migrants to Pakistan at the time of the partition of British India in 1947.
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The picaresque tale of two boys who are born at the precise moment that India shrugged off the British yoke in 1947 and are, therefore, "handcuffed to history" and to each other's fate has been condensed to fit the film's running time.
During WWII, for example, he was an ambulance driver (his poor eyesight kept him out of the infantry) attached to the old British-Indian Army in India and Burma, where, among other horrors, he witnessed a famine that took the lives of millions.
The India Pale Ale is a style that was developed by the British in the 19th century, maxed-out on hops to help for the long voyages to India.
Once the war was over in Europe, the British voters tossed him out and shortly thereafter India achieved independence, a goal Mr. Churchill had fought hard against all of his life.
What he uncovered was the story of Edward William Barton-Wright, a British engineer who was born in India and lived in Japan in the 1890s.
But Mr Cameron sounded a cautionary note over corruption in India, while admitting the British economy was not immune to rogue trading.
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The British and Indian foreign ministers discussed this week's visit to Pakistan by the British Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Charles Guthrie, which has caused some disquiet in India.
When this has been achieved, eggs from wild nests in India will be put under the British tragopans, which will act as surrogate parents.
Schools of Islam that emerged in India as a reaction to the British raj are now vying for influence in the north of England.
India had become steadily more difficult for Britain to rule and without India, British hegemony in the Middle East, deemed a core national interest until the disaster of Suez in 1956, was increasingly unsustainable.
The British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, is holding talks in India with the aim to strengthen bilateral trade and nuclear co-operation.
The Reverso was created in 1931 for British army officers stationed in India who requested a watch that could survive a polo match.
In India, British rule pushed aside the feudal lords and made more room for Indian business, but of course favored British business even more.
He says because a large number of British jobs have been outsourced to India in the past few years, this "animosity in Britain is natural".
Alice Patten appeared with Aamir Khan in the award-winning film Rang De Basanti, playing a young woman who goes to India to make a documentary film about the British rule in the Indian subcontinent.
It was only after independence from the British in 1947 that adult education instilled itself on a national level in India as a domain that was in need of collective help, restructuring, and positive change.
The letter, typed by Gandhi when he was detained in India by British forces in 1943, contains a plea for his freedom.
He was born in Karachi (though it was part of British India at the time).
Salman Rushdie was born in India but is a British citizen and has lived in the UK for most of his life.
After all, it was British colonial rulers who, at partition in 1947, drew the boundary line between India and Pakistan that the two nations have battled over ever since.
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